A common mistake is to believe that a test could describe who someone really is because that “someone” is a totally unique being who is capable of thinking, dreaming, visualising, creating, making decisions, planning etc.
In any situation when we evaluate a person, whether it is to understand them better as an individual, or assess their suitability for a position, we look at two important factors.
Performia can help you see who is really behind the mask.
Know the potential of a candidate to produce results and fit the role, BEFORE you hire them.
It helps get your team more stable, safe and productive.
Here is a great write up from Marten Runow, Founder of Performia International
“Working in the field of recruitment you cannot avoid running into the field of personality and how it affects the recruitment process.
Personality is not an unimportant factor but it is not the most major factor.
The word personality comes from the Latin word “persona” which means: A character in a play, an actor’s mask, and a human.
In other words “personality” is not really the person himself but what most p
eople will see (the “mask”) when meeting that individual.
This could be the manners, the style, the way he or she is handling certain situations, reactions to stress, handling of people, attitudes towards different type of opposition, etc.
All of that put together in a package we could call the “personality”.
A common mistake is to believe that a test could describe who someone really is because that “someone” is a totally unique being who is capable of thinking, dreaming, visualising, creating, making decisions, planning etc.
In fact each and every one of us is fully individual and that “uniqueness” cannot be measured in any personality test.
You may like music or be good at writing lyrics and that is something that will give some kind of a picture of you even if it does not even vaguely describe the entirety of you.
If you like a certain sport or flowers or prefer to create art, these are all factors far outside of what a personality test can measure.
If you build empires or dwell on how to be able to repair your car is as well not seen in a personality test, because the size and the type of game that you are involved in has a lot to do with you and again, that cannot be measured in any personality test.
However, what can be measured is how or in which ways you are doing things.
Imagine the artistic painter who is painting a landscape. Whether you will like the quality of that painting or not is nothing we can test by looking at the painter’s personality graph, but how he will handle the actions and problems of painting and in what manner things are done we can evaluate by looking at his personality.
Is he a perfectionist?
Does he like to work fast?
Does he often try new things or is he conservative?
Does he have a tendency to stop before the painting is completed?
These are all questions to which a good personality test can give you a decent answer.”
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